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aio bes QUEEN'S PARK Farm Union WHITB "encore camebtaner Gro' OTTAWA REPORT Pearson Adviser Ohe Oshawa Times INFLATION 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario ESCALATOR. Develo tT Published by Canadian Newspapers Company Lirnited Reaches Senate eel See Cae ae, ps 0 ] T. L. 'Wilson, Publisher E. C. Prince, Associate Publisher OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1967 Closure On Unification Unlikely 'Great Issue The indication that the federal government might institute closure as a means of ending the unifica- tion debate is construed in head- lines and news stories as a threat. This is a strong word to describe a parliamentary practice. Closure is as much a part of the procedure of governing as is filibustering. The Opposition has the right to filibuster, harangue to interminable length against measures it holds to be wrong. However the government has a responsibility to assure the continuance of government by any legitimate means, and while it is ex- treme, closure remains one of those means, An attempt has already been made by Conservative leadership hopeful George Hees to kindle an- other pipeline fiasco with the sug- gestion of closure on the unifica- tion debate. He undoubtedly would wish to turn the political winds in his party's favor through turning Punta del Es There's a lulling lilt to the pro- nunciation of Punta .del Este, the site of the highly ballyhooed Wes- tern Hemisphere conference in Uru- guay attended by the United States president last week. The danger is the lulling effect might extend to the sweeping announcement that a Latin America common market by 1985 would make all right with the world in the South American way. The high purpose cannot be doubted. It is in keeping with the Kennedy Alliance for Progress pro- proposed in 1961 "to build a hemis- phere where all men can live out their lives in dignity and freedom", a proposition to which the U.S. in- vested $1 billion a year ever since. Unfortunately the facts in South America expose the whole idealistic scheme as pure fantasy. A basic fault is illustrated by the very nature of the conference Pres- ident Johnson attended. Those lead- ers with whom he conferred could She Oshawa Times 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontarle T._L, WILSON, Publisher & C. PRINCE, General Manager - C. J. McCONECHY, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES The Oshawa Times combining The Oshawa Times {established 1871) and the itby Gazette and Chronicle (established 1863) is published daily (Sundays ond Statutary holidays excepted), Members of Canadian Dally Newspaper Publish- ers Association, The Canadian Press, Audit Bureau Association, The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use of republication of all news despatched in the pope credited to It or to The Associated Press or Reuters, ond also the local mews published therein. All rights. of special des- potches are also reserved, 86 King St. E., Oshawa, Ontario National Advertising Offices: Thomson Bulldin: 425 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario; 64! 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But so much has been said in con- flict now that confusion is about the only consequence. Generally Canadians would be glad to have a decision made and would prefer to see their federal government get on with other legislation. If closure is required to do this then closure will be accepted for the present at least. As Mr. Hees well knows, it will be at the time of an election when the people ex- press their opinions on both the handling of unification and the in- stitution of closure. tes Fantasy hardly claim to represent the people of their countries. Ten military coups and uprisings have taken place since the Grand Alliance was declared. As the conference was held Brazil and Argentina as well as six other states were ruled by military juntas. Hardly represen- tatives of the people, these men. The people are poverty-ridden sharecroppers practically unaware of the advances of the 20th cen- tury. They toil in hardship and hun- ger. In some areas the illiteracy rate is 90 per cent. The absentee landlords are indifferent to their plight. The wealthy are not bother- ed with taxes which might build schools for them. The United States has justifica- tion for its concern about the fu- ture of South American nations. The people are restless, ripe for re- volt. A common market could speed the development of regional econ- omies and improve the standard of living. But very few of the Latirf American countries have the stabil- ity of government to proceed con- structively with such a program. In the meantime nothing adds coals to the fires of revolution more than the tactics of the mili- tary oligarchies in power. Other Editors' Views COMPLICATED A report from Salisbury says that the Rhodesian government feels it- self absolved from its debts to Britain because Britain has sup- ported sanctions against it. Uni- lateral declaration of independence is still a complicated way to shed debts. --(The Ottawa Journal) yarn tnau nym iinet nharenetoetin tut By PATRICK NICHOLSON OTTAWA --Maurice Lamon- tagne, Privy Councillor, ex- Member of Parliament, one- time professor at Laval Univer- sity, former civil servant, 49 year old native of Mont-Joli, Que., has been appointed as senator by Prime Minister Pearson. His stairway to the political stars began in 1957, when the St. Laurent Liberal government was surprisingly defeated in the general election by the rising star from the Prairies. Many of the Liberal appointees, with whom the Ottawa civil service was filled during the long Mac- kenzie King-St. Laurent era, felt that they would be fired by the incoming Conservative govern- ment. One moved out--ahead of the axe which never fell. He was the defeated prime minister's economic advisor, Maurice La- montagne. But Mr. Lamontagne was ex- pected to develop into a bright political star adding lustre to the Liberal diadem. So the next year he was set up to make a triumphant entry onto the par- liamentary stage, where he had labored earlier and briefly as a stagehand. QUEBEC CITADEL FALLS The Liberal stronghold of Quebec East was chosen as his red carpet to Parliament Hill. No Liberal candidate had ever been defeated in an election in that constituency. For 61 years it had been held with distinction by three great Liberals, prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, justice minister Ernest La- pointe, and prime minister St. Laurent. In the 1953 election the largest majority in Canada had been piled up there by the sup- port which Liberal voters gave to Uncle Louis. Lamontagne was considered worthy to follow on those distinguished heels. But the university professor could not communicate with the common man; he failed to get his message across on the huste ings. His defeat gave the Cone servatives their firstever vice tory in Quebec East. Neverthe less, Lamontagne came back to Parliament Hill where he was appointed economic adviser to the new Liberal leader, Lester Pearson. Liberals regarded 1958 as an electoral freak; so he tried again in 1962 to win election in the Liberal citadel of Quebec East. But that time a new breed of cat, such as had never be- fore been elected in Quebec City, a Social Creditor, piled up against Lamontagne a majority even larger than the great Laurier or Lapointe had ever achieved. THE MAKING OF A SENATOR So another doorway to Par- liament Hill had to be found. There was a seat in Montreal called Outremont - St. Jean where nobody but a Liberal had ever been elected. The sitting MP was appointed to the Sen- ate. This created an opening where Lamontagne was able to stand and, this time, to win, Two weeks later, having never yet been in the House of Com- mons, he was appointed to the cabinet. After a career there brief and undistinguished, and maybe remembered best by many Canadians for a_ highly publicized furniture transaction, he resigned. Now, after less than four years in the House of Commons, during which he drew some $115,000 as an MP and minister, he has resigned from that elected position too. But the same day Mr. Pear- son appointed him to the part- time but lifetime job as a sen- ator. Being only 49 years old, he may sit in our upper chamber for more than a quarter of a century, and be paid at ,least $375,000 by. the taxpayers, be- fore compulsory retirement at age 75 Australia Intends To Curb 'Matia-Type' By VINCENT MATTHEWS Canadian Press Corresponden MELBOURNE (CP) -- Aus- tralia's immigration department has set up a police branch to investigate immigrants living here and to screen those intend- ing to settle in Australia. The main aim is to prevent what Victoria Police Chief John Arnold has called the danger of a "Mafia type organization" be- ing set up in Australia. Three years ago four men were shot dead in an outbreak of gangster violence in Mel- bourne. They were all connected with the Victoria Market, the city's biggest fruit and vegeta- ble market which is run mainly by Italians. Police believed criminals from Calabria in southern Italy had set up an extortion racket at the market and the slayings fol- lowed when the crooks started feuding. Italian community leaders deny there is anything like a Mafia organization in Australia and say the murders were the result of feuding families, not gangsters. EDITOR PROTESTS Nino Randazzo, a leader of Italian immigrants in Melbourne and a newspaper editor, said: 'No migrant who has been ac- cepted as a new citizen should be subjected to closer scrutiny than a natural-born Australian. "Canada has _ nothing like these restrictions and it accepts three times as many Italian mi- grants as Australia." But Police Chief Arnold, who went to Italy last year to check up on crime organization there, Said: Organization "Most Italians are decent and law-abiding. What concerns me is the small Mafia minority which is part of a highly-dan- gerous organization. If they are allowed to entrench themselves here we shall be faced with the same problems they have in the United States." Arnold accused the govern- ment of not doing enough to screen prospective immigrants. Much of the work of the new "Immigration police' branch will be under cover, ferreting out immigrants trying to run organized crime rackets in Aus- tralia. ACTION URGED Some Labor members of Par- liament have been pressing the government to act against the Ustashi, a Croatian emigre fasc- ist organization which claims it is training men in Australia to return to Yugoslavia to over- throw the Tito government. They have been responsible for sev- eral bomb - throwing incidents against other Yugoslavs consid- ered loyal to Tito. In one case a Ustashi member was carry- ing a bomb to plant in another man's house when it exploded, blowing his own leg off. It was the Ustashi which was believed responsible for recent bomb incidents at Yugoslav con- Sulates in Canada and the United States, The immigrant "screening"' and the publicity given to the new special police come at a bad time for Australian immi- gration officials. The number of migration applications in Brit- ain, for instance, is down 40 per cent from last year and it is becoming harder than ever to get immigrants from Europe. wn qian rin Tl] By Jack Gearin Martin Ready To Dust Off Those Ballot Boxes Returning Officer George Martin is getting ready to dust off those ballot boxes for the Provincial election, and why not? Hon. Allan Grossman, Ontario Minister of Reform Institutions, will be at Kin Community Cen- tre May 8 for the PC's nom- ination. The NDPs will hold a meet- the-candidate - in - Oshawa - riding banquet and dance May 13 to officially kick off Clif- ford Pilkey's campaign (the former City alderman has more, than 1,000 hand - painted signs ready for distribution as he re- lentlessly pursues his door - to- door visits). : The Liberals will hold their nomination meeting next Mon- day night (of all places for the Liberals) in the UAW Hall on Bond street east. Will Lyman Gifford run, or George D. Dry- nan, QC, or Mrs. Ralph Jones or William A. Selby, the hard- working of the riding associa- tion? These and other important Liberal questions will be answer- ed at that time. The party ex- pects to-have a big-name guest speaker for the occasion, pos- sibly a Federal cabinet minis- ter. Perhaps by that time Return- ing Officer Martin will have received his telegram from the not enough to sit back and say: organizaions (he doesn't like Provincial government instruct- ing him: to get the electoral machinery in order. Hell hath no fury like a large pack of ratepayers brutally scorned, We refer specificially, of course, to the Bay Ridges Rate- payers Association, which has been getting as much publici- ty of late as "'Morty" Shulman. Little wonder it is that the BRRA is the fastest growing such organization in Canada's municipal world - they sold more than 500 membership tickets a- lone last Tuesday at that stormy pow-wow when 700 crowded in- to a hall with seating space for 500. The Bay Ridges group was angry about several things, but their pet peeves were The Provincial government, the Pick- ering Township Council, the spiralling tax rate and a recent bylaw that restricts lawn water- ing and car washing. Such a mass turnout is un- precedented in this area. Various readers will interpret various messages from these angry protests, but surely one of the most common will run something like this: It 'is not sufficient to elect a@ municipal body and then bury eur heads in the sand, It is "Go ahead now boys and run our big municipal show. We trust you all implicitly and we will not snoop. We'll see you come the next municipal election in two years'. The prime responsibility of the taxpayers is to constantly keep a weather eye on City Hall and the school boards. Ne- glect of this duty can quickly lead to financial chaos whether it be in Bay Ridges, Oshawa, Peterborough or Belleville (where the municipality got in- to serious financial dilemma some years back when the little man forgot about City Hall). Perhaps the ratepayers were a little rough on the Pickering Township Council, but such pro- tests will eventually pay sound dividends, help clear the air. It was pure hogwash for Reeve Clifford Laycox to say that ratepayers' association were the tools of politicians and pressure groups. More such associations are urgently. needed, especially in Oshawa where municipal apathy is strong. The reeve's holier - than - thou attitude was tantamount to saying that Council itself was without blemish in this regard; in one sweeping gesture he at- tempted to besmirch all such party politics, either). He said the municipality was losing industry because of such adverse publicity, but surely the ratepayers are not alone to blame? Does he want them to sit submissively on the side- lines until they lose their homes? Reeve Laycox said the people knew only one side of the story ('They can't get servic- es without paying") - this when he sounded strangley like some of Oshawa's elected representa- tives (such as Ald. Gilbert Mur- doch and former Mayor Lyman Gifford when they doubted whether the 10,000 petitioners who signed the Creek Valley Expressway brief last year were qualified to express an opin- ion on the controversial matter). The reeve did make a lot of sense when he said it was not Council but the district school board which should be ejected from. office. He said the school board spent money "like it was made on trees, "'which seems to be the most predominant charac- teristic of most school boards in Ontario today. Perhaps these Bay Ridges ratepayers will get out and vote next election. Only 28 percent bothered to last time, @hor nee nnenn tree FOREIGN NEWS ANALYSIS TALKING ABOUT ESCALATION urn MRR ULL U.S. Eyes Our Air Space By PHILIP DEANE Foreign Affairs Analyst The U.S. would punish us if we did not do exactly as the Pentagon says; so at least sug- gest some of our military men in Ottawa. They claim we must choose between being neutral or building an anti - missile de- fence. There is no middle way, they say; we cannot offer to contribute a joint defence in any other manner and if we do not contribute fully, then we must declare ourselves neutral and suffer the economic conse- quences because the U.S. will cut us off without a penny. But the U.S.--some of its air force generals except --does not really want us to build anti- missiles around our cities; why should Washington care if Tor- onto or Montreal is destroyed? The U.S. knows that a couple of Canadian squadrons equipped with the latest and most ex- pensive interceptors will add lit- tle to deterrence against a Com- munist attack. Nor is the U.S. relying on our submarine chasers to stop Russian sub- marines, If we insist, in a polite and friendly way, that we do not want to equip ourselves with such gear, we would not be un- duly pressed by Washington. What the U.S. wants is our space. American strategists could not rest easy if Canada refused to let itself be used as a forward observation post. Even as an observation post we are becoming obsolete because Russian missiles can fire around the globe arriving on their U.S. targets over Mexico. Still, the U.S. would be very upset if we declared ourselves neutral. The Americans do not want us to feel neutral towards their defence problems. If we keep saying loudly and persuasively that far from feeling neutral we feel we are in the same boat, as we are, the Americans will be satisfied and could be per- TODAY IN HISTORY By THE CANADIAN PRESS April 18, 1967... The Second World War came to Japan for the first time 25 years ago today-- in 1942--when Lt.-Col. James S. Doolittle led 16 Mitchell bombers from USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo. The aircraft took off at the limit of their range because the carrier had been detected by Ja- panese patrols. One landed in Russia and two in Japan but all but one man of the other 13 crews rejoined the Allies after reaching China. Doolittle was promoted to major general and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 1775--Paul Revere made his ride to Lexington, Mass, 1949--The Republic of Ire- land was proclaimed. First World War Fifty years ago today--in 1917--the British defeated 18th Turkish Army Corps at Istabulat, : Mesopotamia; Gen, von Bissing, German governor of Belgium, died; the French advanced in the second battle of the Aisne, Second World War Twenty-five years ago to- day -- in 1942 -- U.S. Army bombers flew from an air- craft carrier to bomb Tokyo; Free French head- quarters announced the Sur- couf, the world's largest submarine, was presumed sunk, suaded that we do not really contribute very much to their defence by buying obsolete things such as the BOMARC or their latest fighter planes. In exchange for the use of our space, our ports and our air- fields, they would not try to deny our defence contracts or special treatment for our oil exports. SHOULD WE PULL WEIGHT It is not the Americans but our military men and some of our more nationalistic _politi- cians who insist Canada must pull its own weight to have any pride, but what pride is there in pulling a weight that is only symbolic and makes no differ- ence in the balance of power? Another Ottawa group, those who favor neutrality, believe we should divorce ourselves for- mally from U.S, defence ar- rangements such as NORAD and make a ringing declaration of neutrality. Ringing declara- tions, except in circumstances such as those that prompted Churchill to say Britons would never surrender, sound silly and are useless. No one would believe we were neutral, not with so much of our economy owned by the U.S. that our neutrality is not believed has not stopped us from playing a role as a quasi-neutral of the pro-American variety in various UN undertakings such as Suez or Cyprus. So why not stay in NORAD, make no declarations of neutral- ity, let the Americans maintain radar networks on our soil but refrain from spending ourselves silly for new ultrasonic inter- ceptors and antimissiles, Ontario People Favored Prohibition On 1921 Ballot By BOB BOWMAN Intoxicating liquor has been a problem in Canada since the earliest days when Bishop Laval tried to stop its sale to the In- dians. The situation became most severe during the colonial development years in the early 19th century. Inns grew like mushrooms, partly because they were subsidized, but they were more concerned with serving drinks than providing accom- modation for travellers. A group of people might ask for rooms for the night, but would be given sleeping space in one large attic room. There would be mattresses on the floor and buffalo robes to cover them. On one occasion a traveller lifted a buffalo robe off a table and found the body of a 15-year- old boy who had been killed in a brawl during the afternoon. There was almost a complete breakdown of family life along some sections of the frontier. Many families were deserted by their fathers, and sometimes children wandered off, never to be seen again. Little effort was made to look for them. A growing feeling of revulsion led to petitions for prohibition. (Wma ga seam TE ISLAND OF te DEAD vgn ntact GROSSE HE- IN THE ST-LAWRENCE RIVER BELOW QUEBEC CITY - USED BY BRITAIN FROM THE YEAR 1832 ASA PLACE FOR SCREENING IMMIGRANTS FOR DKEASE THOUSANDS, FLEEING PESTILENCE AND FAMINE ARRIVED FROM EUROPE SUFFERING FROM CHOLERA N OR TYPHUS AND THEIR ONLY PIECE OF THE NEWLAND ° BECAME A GRAVE ON GROSSE M6 . st The Parliament of Canada, as it was in 1861, passed a Tem- perance Act which allowed any municipality to prohibit the Sale of intoxicating liquor. An- other Canada Temperance Act was passed in 1878, and a royal commission studied the problem in 1892. Four of its members opposed prohbition, but one member was in favor. There was one national plebiscite in which most voters favored pro- hibition, but the majority was so small that the government did not put it into effect. During the First World War, all the provinces except Quebec imposed probibition as a war- time emergency measure. Then after the war the prohibition movement gained so much Strength that most provinces adopted it. The people of On- tario. voted for prohibition in a plebiscite held on April 8, 1921. OTHER APRIL 18 EVENTS: 1749--Royal order increased issue of card money to one million livres. 1838--James Cuthbert elected chairman of special commission to govern Lower Canada. mal New Image By DON O'HEARN TORONTO -- The Ontario Farmers' Union was in the other day with its annual brief for the cabinet. Until now the older parties, and particularly the Conserva- tives, have not taken this farm group too seriously. They have tended to regard ft as a militant group of dissi- dents which has been making a lot of noise but which really doesn't have too much backing from the farm community. The writer, however, has the impression it is time they took some second thoughts on this. CALM TOO: Frankly my impression of the farmers union leadership was much better than I had ex- pected it to be. These men are heading a militant group, there's no ques+ tion of that. And also at the top there are one or two men who could easily be hotheads. But there also are calm and cool men steering the union-- and they present a much more reasonable approach than you look for from this organization which last summer was cruising the highways in tractors and storming through the Parlia- ment buildings. Some of the policies they talk about are extreme, and appar- ently not too well thought out or understood. But in this they are not much better or worse than most lob- bying groups that come in here, from labor unions to municipal spokesmen. Essentially, the union is not a wildeyed, crusading body now --though at one time it may have been--or at least doesn't give this appearance. This means you have to be- lieve it, or at least partially be- lieve it, when it says that farm- ers throughout Ontario are swarming into its ranks. It believes it now has a ma- jority of all the active farmers in the province as members. This may not be right. But you can credit that it now prob- ably has a very substantial backing. It still is not giving out mem- bership figures (on the grounds these have been distorted in the past to discredit the organiza: tion). But it does claim nearly 404 locals throughout the province, varying in size from 25 meme bers to several hundred. If this is true it has to be treated with respect, both for what it has to say and politi- cally. For this would be a pow- erful block of votes if it were ever directed behind one party. The union leadership says it is non-political, and presumably even if it were it could not swing the vote of all its mem- bership. But nevertheless if it is of this size no party could afford to seriously offend it, YEARS AGO 20 YEARS AGO April 18, 1947 The first Father and Son Ban quet by the 9th Oshawa Scouts was held at St. Gregory's aud torium last night. Mr. Charles Johnson of Osh- awa has been elected to the executive of the Ontario Bar- ber's Association. 35 YEARS AGO April 18, 1932 At today's luncheon of the Oshawa Rotary Club, a resolu- tion was passed reducing the initiation fee of the club from $25.00 to $15.00. Thomas Hawkes has been elected mayor to replace P. A. MacDonald, who resigned to join the Public Utilities. BIBLE ". , . Ye must be born again..." 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